# The Forest School App — Forest school records, offline > Forest school records, offline (iPhone/iPad app by The Code Guy Ltd.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/the-forest-school-app/id6776247989 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [The Code Guy Ltd](https://appshunter.io/developer/1147295387) - Category: Education, Productivity - Price: Free - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 15.0 · 72 MB - Released: 2026-06-10 - Data updated: 2026-09-06 - User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/the-forest-school-app/id6776247989/reviews.md ## What is The Forest School App? The Forest School App is your field companion for the woods - the record book that works where you do: outdoors, off-grid, on your phone. Free for practitioners - there's nothing to buy in the app. Built by a forest-school practitioner, it's made for the one job that can't wait for a desk or a signal: capturing what happens in your session as it happens. Mark the register, check your ratio, log the risks you're managing, record observations and photos, note any incidents, and reflect when you're done. Everything saves to your device the moment you tap, and syncs automatically when you're back in signal - so a flat battery, a soggy notebook, or no bars in the woods never costs you a record again. This is the in-the-field half of the system. Planning, bookings, your risk-benefit library, reports and admin live in the web back-office; the app is built to be fast, focused, and usable with cold hands and one thumb. IN THE WOODS, WITH NO SIGNAL • Registers & ratios - mark who's here, count your adults, and see your adult-to-child ratio is right at a glance, with a logged override when a higher ratio is justified. • Weather go/no-go - record your site-check decision and the reasoning behind it. • Dynamic risk log - capture the risks you spot and the actions you take, as you take them. • Observations - record children's learning against developmental areas, tagged to the child and the activity. • Photos, consent-first - the camera won't open for a child without photo consent, so you can capture the moment safely. • Incidents & accidents - log the type, severity, and action taken, on the spot. • Reflection - close out the session with your review while it's still fresh. • Your professional record - keep your DBS, first aid, qualifications, and CPD with you, ready when an assessor asks. WHY LEADERS USE IT • Works fully offline - every tap saves to your device; nothing waits on a signal. • Built for the woods - fast, glove-friendly, and shaped around how a real session runs. • Syncs automatically - back in range, your records flow up to the back-office on their own. • Your data stays yours - private by design. Plan your sessions, manage bookings and groups, build your reusable risk-benefit library, and produce professional session records and PDFs in the web back-office - then head into the woods with the app. From a one-person setting to a multi-site provider, The Forest School App keeps the paperwork out of the mud and lets you focus on the learning. ## Version history (last 5 releases) ### 1.8 — 2026-09-04 A fresh look: one shape for every button, box and tag, easier on the eye in the woods. • Bigger, clearer handwriting • Sign-up says what it needs from a password • Add an observation with a leaf, not a sparkle • Attendees named the same way throughout • The bottom bar fits every phone ### 1.7 — 2026-08-26 Set up your forest school on the web and the app picks it up straight away — no signing out and back in. • Tools and fire: count kit out and back in, so nothing sharp goes home in a rucksack • The register no longer loses a child while you mark another one • Take a booking from the session you're looking at, with sibling and family rates • Photos reach families, consent re-checked every time • Attendees, not just children • A clearer way around: six doors, not a long list ### 1.6 — 2026-07-16 Everything you need in the field now works with no signal. • Fill in incident forms and raise safeguarding concerns offline — they sync when you're back in range • Walk and survey a wood on the spot, and it remembers what you found • Add a short video to an observation • Open a Word risk assessment and read it straight in the app • The six Forest School principles, with you out in the wood • A cleaner, more personal look throughout ### 1.4 — 2026-07-14 The session is now a day log — what happened, in order, on one screen, with nothing in the way. • Register: choose which phone is taking it, and read it easily outdoors • Ratios say "unconfirmed" rather than a false warning when a child has no date of birth • Read and sign your risk assessments — tap straight to the one waiting for you • Your profile, tickets and woods in one place • A warmer look, and a phone menu that matches the desktop ### 1.3 — 2026-07-08 Working as a team in the woods? Take the register on one phone and carry on working on the others — observations, photos and incidents unlock for everyone expected today, even with no signal. • Sign off risk assessments, site checks and incident forms with a drawn signature • Clearer adult-to-child ratio guidance when a child's date of birth is missing • Sync is more resilient — one stuck record no longer holds up the rest of your session data The breakdown, if you want it for your own reference: - Register on another phone (was 1.2, never shipped publicly) — the fix for Sarah's report: a second device can skip the register and still record observations, photos and incidents against everyone expected today; it auto-reverts the moment you mark a child on that phone. - Finger-drawn signatures (new in 1.3) — on RBA acknowledgements, the daily site check, and incident forms, honouring your per-setting signature policy (draw / upload / tap-to-confirm), with drawn signatures appearing on the session-record PDF. - Ratio explanation (new in 1.3) — when children have no date of birth, the ratio panel now says they're counted as under-3 for safety and shows amber instead of an alarming red, instead of looking arbitrarily "broken". - Sync resilience (was v20, also never shipped publicly on iOS) — a stuck document push no longer blocks the pull, and one bad document can't fail the whole sync. ## Related topics [forest school](https://appshunter.io/ios/topics/forest-school) --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). 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